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Direct linkUleanya, Chinaza – Africa Education Review, 2022
University education is envisaged to contribute to and enhance sustainable development in society. Hence there is a desire for quality and effectiveness in the tertiary education system for which huge amounts of money are budgeted annually. However, the quality and effectiveness of rural university education with regard to aiding sustainable…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Download full textAndile Mbhele; Adelakun O. Johnson; Cedric Bheki Mpungose – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
This article presents the results of an interpretive case study of three lecturers teaching English at a South African University. The purpose of the study was to explore the lecturers' strategies to decolonize the curriculum succinctly. Purposive, with convenient sampling, identified the three most available lecturers. An emailed reflective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Pitan, Oluyomi Susan; Muller, Colette – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study responds to identified challenges of poor work-readiness of many graduates and the inadequate relation between education and work. Through students' perspectives, the study examines the extent to which selected South African universities are supporting their students in developing employability skills and the influence of such…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Seniors, College Graduates, Employment Potential
Ward, Mike – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) supports processes of change in complex socio-ecological systems. Where and how this change takes place are important considerations as we seek to enhance our capacity to challenge existing systems and thus produce and reproduce our life activities in more sustainable ways. This paper considers the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Sustainable Development, Correlation, Social Change
McKenna, Sioux; Hlengwa, Amanda; Quinn, Lynn; Vorster, Jo-Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Much academic development work, whether it be student, academic staff, institutional or curriculum development, is undertaken from an affirmative rather than a transformative approach (Luckett, L., and S. Shay. 2020. "Reframing the Curriculum: A Transformative Approach." "Critical Studies in Education" 61 (1): 50-65). To be…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning
Carolien van den Berg; Vivienne Bozalek – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The digitisation of the world has led to a multitude of far-reaching implications that require students to be prepared for the dynamic era of rapid change, complexity, fluidity, and ubiquity in which they will work at the forefront of technology. To succeed in this environment, students must be able to design and implement digital innovations…
Descriptors: Design, Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Universities
Bindiya Naik; Jyoti Chandiramani; Sudipa Majumdar – Cogent Education, 2024
India, with the third largest higher education system globally, has the lowest gross enrolment ratio compared to G20 nations. The National Education Policy 2020 has made a strong recommendation to enhance the gross enrolment ratio for higher education to 50% by 2035. This figure stood at 19.4% in 2010 and 28.4% in 2021-22. The study, therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inclusion, Enrollment
Shakila Dada; Cathy Flores; Kirsty Bastable; Kerstin Tönsing; Alecia Samuels; Sourav Mukhopadhyay; Beatrice Isanda; Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe; Unati Stemela-Zali; Saira Banu Karim; Legini Moodley; Adele May; Refilwe Morwane; Katherine Smith; Rahab Mothapo; Mavis Mohuba; Maureen Casey; Zakiyya Laher; Nothando Mtungwa; Robyn Moore – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Over 8 million children with disabilities live in Africa and are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), yet formal training for team members, such as speech-language therapists and special education teachers, is extremely limited. Only one university on the continent provides postgraduate degrees in AAC, and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education
Fred Bidandi; Ambe Nofor Anthony; Claudia Mukong – Discover Education, 2022
In this paper we attempt to locate collaboration and partnerships between higher education institutions and their stakeholders. These include the state, students, teaching and administrative staff, the community and corporate entities. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the contribution of stakeholders to the developmental trajectory and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Higher Education, Universities
Gerda Dullaart; Ydalene Coetsee; Jean L. Farmer; Jennifer Feldman; Jerome Joorst; Ruenda Loots; Marianne Mckay; Simbongile Ntwasa – Transformation in Higher Education, 2023
Institutional transformation and inclusion have slowly become more prominent in the strategies of historically white institutions in South Africa. Despite these efforts, progress towards these goals has been limited. In this article, we reflect on our conversations about transforming our curricula and teaching practices as an interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile – Education as Change, 2022
The public university in the global South continues to be trapped in an existential slumber, struggling to self-define/self-diagnose its purposes, rationales, goals and agenda(s). Despite the emergence of the #FeesMustfall, #RhodesMustFall, and more recently the #Asinamali student protests, South African higher education continues to adopt…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Universities, Curriculum Development
Jacobs, Cecilia; Van Schalkwyk, Susan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
What knowledge matters in health professions education is an issue of debate in the literature, foregrounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and informed by calls for students who are not only clinically competent, but also critically conscious of global health inequity. Building on this work, this paper explores what kinds of knowledge are legitimated…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Universities, Foreign Countries
Joseph Tufuor Kwarteng; Maxmos Walasi Servoh – Cogent Education, 2023
This study employed a concurrent embedded design to compare the accounting curricula of selected universities in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, guided by International Education Standards (IES) 2, 3, 4, and 5. Fourteen universities from different continents were conveniently selected, and a descriptive content analysis was conducted to analyse…
Descriptors: Accounting, Curriculum, Benchmarking, Foreign Countries
Heila Lotz-Sisitka; Simon McGrath; Presha Ramsarup – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In this paper, drawing on an extensive research project across three countries (VET Africa 4.0 Collective 2023), we produce an emerging argument that it is necessary to rethink and reframe VET logics and approaches in a warming future dominated by informality and mass unemployment. Currently, neither the formal VET college or workplace are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Climate, Ecology, Political Issues
Arko-Achemfuor, Akwasi; Romm, Norma; Serolong, Lesego – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2019
In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated the term "academic-practitioner" to render fuzzy the distinction between "academic" roles (associated with…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning
